Judith Lavoie
Reporter
@LavoieJudith Judith Lavoie is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria, British Columbia. Lavoie covered environment and First Nations stories for the Victoria Times Colonist for more than 20 years and is now working as a freelancer. She previously worked on newspapers in New Brunswick, Cyprus, England and the Middle East. Lavoie has won four Webster awards and has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award and a Michener Award.
Stories by Judith Lavoie
B.C. allows logging in nine ‘protected’ old-growth areas
10 min. readThe BC NDP has consistently stated it placed protections on 353,000 hectares of old-growth forest,...
Canada finally has a plan to protect Wood Buffalo’s UNESCO world heritage status. Will it be enough?
Ottawa announced $60 million to protect Canada’s largest national park after the UN warned it...
B.C. argues Nuchatlaht Nation ‘abandoned’ its territory. Lawyer reminds court ‘land was stolen’
In the first-ever title case argued in B.C. since the province introduced UNDRIP legislation, Crown...
Aging Ajax mine leaching arsenic, selenium into creek near Kamloops, B.C.
A lack of monitoring of contamination in Peterson Creek demonstrates the province’s need for mining...
B.C. salmon farms regularly under-counting sea lice, study finds
Lower counts mean companies don’t need to conduct expensive delousing treatments of farmed fish that...
B.C.’s emissions reach highest levels since 2001
Newly released provincial greenhouse gas emission inventory for 2018 shows pollution spike, with oil and...
New global standards for mine waste won’t prevent dam failures, critics say
The international standards, which come in response to tailings disasters like Mount Polley, are facing...
Global standards required to prevent mine tailings disasters like Mount Polley: report
Canada, home to about 60 per cent of global mining companies, has a crucial role...
B.C. opens Sunshine Coast forest — home to some of Canada’s oldest trees — to logging
Local conservation group asks province to cancel cutblocks containing ancient yellow cedars and unofficial bear...
